Melissa Brodeur

From alien-like isopods and vampire squid, to “fatheads” and the Dumbo octopus with flying ears, the Census of Marine Life exposed the strange creatures of the deep during its 10-year mission of discovery.

November 23, 2009  12:22 pm | Comments Off on The Deep Sea World Beyond Sunlight

Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried an astonishing abundance, diversity and distribution of deep sea species that have never known sunlight – creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 5,000 meters (~3 miles) below the ocean waves.

Census of Marine Life U.S. National Committee (USNC) member and ocean advocate Sylvia Earle was awarded the prestigious 2009 TED Prize for her life long devotion and advocacy for the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it.

February 2, 2008  12:41 pm | Comments Off on CoML and Ocean Layer in Google Earth Bring Ocean Information to Life

Ocean in Google Earth, which enables user to dive beneath the surface of the sea and explore the world’s oceans, was launched on February 2, 2009 at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, CA.